In World War II, what was D-Day?

Answer 1

D-day was the landing of the allies on normany beach (south of great britian). It was a serouis casulity count but it was one of the steps that lead the allies to win.

Answer 2

The invasion of German occupied northern France from England was launched on June 6 1944, the famous "D-Day" of World War II. A huge armada had been assembled, including 1,200 fighting ships, 10,000 planes, 4,126 landing craft, 804 transport ships, and hundreds of amphibious and other special purpose tanks. During the operation 156,000 troops (73,000 U.S. and 83,000 British or Canadian) were landed in Normandy, 132,500 of them seaborne across the English Channel, 23,500 airborne. The beaches chosen for the landings stretched from the estuary of the Orne to the southeastern edge of the Cotentin peninsula, with the British and Canadians taking the eastern beaches and the Americans the western.

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Answer 3

D-Day was June 6, 1944. On that day, the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to begin the invasion of "Fortress Europe" in order to force Nazi Germany to pull out of France, the Netherlands, Belgium, et.al. This invasion marked the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe. Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945.

Answer 4

June 6 1944 The armed forces of Britain,Canada and the USA together with contingents from France, Poland,Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands invaded France from bases in Britain by storming the Normandy beaches to liberate Western Europe from the occupying German forces.

Answer 5

The most famous D-Day was the Normandy Invasion of continental Europe by the western allies on June 6, 1944. Less famous D-days were Pacific theatre invasions from Guadalcanal to Okinawa.

So in answer to your question, 'what was D-Day". The strict definition is that day that an invasion started. But as you can see from most of the answers above, the general public usually refers to the Normandy Invasion, however, that was only ONE D-Day in WWII.

Answer 6

D-Day, in military shorthand, refers to the day that a particular operation commences. It is used to refer to any operation, so a not to give away too much detail of matters that may still be held as classified. Likewise, time is expressed as H-Hour. [However, 'M' is *not* used to express time in minutes--it is specifically reserved for the day mobilization of personnel happens ('M-Day').]

In popular history, 'D-Day' refers specifically to 6 Jun 44, the first day of Operation OVERLORD, the invasion of France's Normandy coast by Allied forces. Less well remembered is 'the other D-Day', the beginning of Op DRAGOON, the invasion of southern France by the allies on 15 Aug 44. (And almost entirely forgotten at the time of OVERLORD was the capture of Rome by allied forces...)

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Answer 7

D-Day was June 6,1944 when the Allies carried out Operation Overlord by landing on the beaches of Normandy.

Answer 8

D-Day also on 06-06, was the great day when the Allied leading General Ike landed all the anti-Nazis by air and by sea to take the shores of the French, and the begining of the deffence of all the murdering SS!

Answer 9

~Do you refer to THE D-Day or to D-Day generally?

If the former, you can't be serious and I refuse to answer something so simple to look up.


If the later, the "D" has no specific meaning, although it has had various meanings in the past and has a current connotation of 'day'. D-Day simply designates the day on which a significant event is anticipated to occur. Likewise, H-Hour is the time of day the event is anticipated. In WWII there were dozens of D-Days, each significant in its own right. June 6, 1944, was only one of them.

Answer 10

Have you not seen "saving private ryan"? The first scene is supposed to be D-day...watch it...it's such a good movie, Tom Hanks is amazing.